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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 9/8/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases involving gun seizures and the federal bump stock ban.

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FPC Files Lawsuit Challenging ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban in Cook County, Illinois

Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced a new federal Second Amendment lawsuit challenging the ban on so-called “assault weapons” in Cook County, Illinois.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/27/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases from Missouri, Wisconsin, and Virginia.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/25/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in New Jersey magazine and Minnesota preemption cases.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/24/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases from New York and Maryland.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/23/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have an updates in cases from Hawaii, Virginia, and Nevada.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/20/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have an update from FPC lawsuit challenging the Massachusetts' Approved Handgun Roster and Attorney General's Handgun Sales Regulations.

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FPC Tells ATF to Withdraw “Unconstitutional” Firearm Rule

Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of the organization’s official comment in opposition to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) Proposed Rule 2021R-05, “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms.”

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/18/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates from cases from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Missouri.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/17/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates from numerous cases that recently had important filings.

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FPC Sues New Jersey To Restore Right-To-Carry Guns in Public for Self-Defense

Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and its FPC Law team announced the filing of a new federal Second Amendment lawsuit, Francisco v. Cooke, challenging New Jersey’s unconstitutional restrictions and local practices that prevent residents from exercising their right to carry loaded handguns in public for self-defense.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/11/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates from cases challenging New Jersey's magazine ban and Hawaii's stun gun ban.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/10/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates from cases involving so-called "ghost guns," preemption, and advertising.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/9/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates from cases at the Fourth Circuit and Supreme Court.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/6/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have an update from a new lawsuit in Hawaii.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/5/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases involving so-called "assault weapons" and "ghost guns".

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/4/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have an update in a case brought by Mexico in Massachusetts' federal court.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/3/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases that involve New York's "assault weapon" ban and the federal bump stock ban.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 8/2/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases from Nevada and New Jersey.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 7/29/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in cases from Texas and Oregon.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 7/28/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in two cases from the Second Circuit (which is comprised of New York, Connecticut, and Vermont).

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 7/26/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have updates in Cases from New York, Hawaii, and the Sixth Circuit.

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FPC Daily 2A Legal Update - 7/23/21

In today's FPC legal update, we have an update from a liability lawsuit in California.

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Madison Society Foundation Files Brief in Supreme Court Supporting Second Amendment Right to Carry

Today, the Madison Society Foundation (MSF) announced that it has filed an important merits-stage United States Supreme Court brief in the Second Amendment case of NYSRPA v. Bruen, the latest Second Amendment case granted by the Court. The brief can be found at FPCLegal.org.

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C.S. v. McCrumb: FPC-backed Lawsuit Challenging Public School Ban on 2A-Related Hats

Federal lawsuit for violating a third-grader’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prevented her from for wearing a hat bearing the text "Come and Take It" as well as an image of an AR-15 rifle to the school’s "hat day."

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FPC leads Second Amendment win in appeal challenging California’s age-based firearm purchase ban

A 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today in the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF)-led case of Jones v. Bonta, holding that California’s age-based firearms purchase ban is unconstitutional and that “the district court erred in not enjoining an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults. The decision can be found online at FPCLaw.org.

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FPC responds to Duke Center for Firearms Law article on test courts should use on Second Amendment cases

A rebuttal in response to criticism of a scholarly paper authored by FPC Action Foundation director of constitutional studies, Joseph Greenlee, was published today by the Duke Center for Firearms Law. In its April 27 article, “Ghost Guns, History, and the Second Amendment,” the Duke Center called into question an argument Greenlee makes in “The American Tradition of Self-made Arms” defending the test of text as informed by history and tradition (THT) as being the correct methodology for Second Amendment jurisprudence.

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Glass v. San Jose: FPC 2A Lawsuit Challenging San Jose Gun Fee, Insurance Requirements

Federal lawsuit challenging San Jose gun fee and insurance requirements.

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FPC files First and Second Amendment lawsuit against San Jose’s unconstitutional gun insurance scheme

Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the City of San Jose’s ordinance requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay a fee in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. FPC’s complaint argues that the mandate violates both the First and Second Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A copy of the complaint in Glass v. City of San Jose can be found at FPCLegal.org.

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FPC rebukes President Biden’s proposed “ghost gun” rule, ATF nomination

FPC has released the following statement regarding President Biden’s new ban on self-built firearms and nomination of Steven Dettelbach, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

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Brief filed by FPC is instrumental in obtaining order to proceed in case against government Facebook censorship

Firearms Policy Coalition today issued the following statement in response to summary judgment orders granted in Delbert Sgaggio v. De Young, et al., a case in which FPC filed an important brief to support a challenge to the City of Woodland Park, Colorado police department’s removal of criticisms posted by an individual to its Facebook page and banning the individual from further posting:

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FPC to Supreme Court in Duncan brief: Force ‘bitter medicine’ upon defiant lower courts or Second Amendment is meaningless

Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) announced the filing of an important brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Duncan v. Bonta (formerly Duncan v. Becerra), a case challenging California’s ban on magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

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FPC’s Supreme Court brief argues lifetime handgun ban for nonviolent offenders is unconstitutional

Firearms Policy Coalition today announced the filing of an important brief with the Supreme Court of the United States asking it to grant certiorari in Morin v. Lyver, a case challenging Massachusetts’s lifetime ban on firearm purchases as applied to a person convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor. FPC’s brief is joined by FPC Action Foundation (formerly Firearms Policy Foundation) and can be found at FPCLaw.org.

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FPC to lead lawsuit against Washington State over magazine ban

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement in response to the enactment of Washington Senate Bill 5078, which goes into effect on July 1, 2022:

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GunShopFines.org: Oppose AB 2362 - Another California Effort to Retaliate Against Gun Shops

The California legislature has rarely seen a tax, fine, fee, penalty, or other financial burden it didn't love. Especially so when it's combined with their disdain for licensed gun shops and gun owners.

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StopNICSdelays.com: NICS expansion to include unreliable data and work towards 'social credit' background checks

StopNICSdelays.com: Oppose HR1324, HR5949, and HR6453 to stop delays, errant denials, state sponsored propaganda, and groundwork for a 'social credit' denial system.

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Idaho Constitutional Carry Improvement Signed

While we were busy suing EVERYONE this week, Idaho's Governor Brad Little signed HB 516, removing the State residency requirement for Constitutional Carry within city limits and making Bloomberg's astroturf group Moms Demand Action reach for their box wine & xanax.

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VICTORY: CA Gun & Ammo Tax DEFEATED!

This is a HUGE win for CA gun owners, as the legislation would have imposed an additional tax on the purchase of semiautomatic firearms and ammunition.

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This Week In Gun Rights: Nov 29, 2019

florida fights municipalities, fingers point at ghost gun used in Saugus High School murders, Colorado Sheriffs on Red Flag Laws, Hi-Point Lo-Point.

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CA. Gov. Newsom Signs 15 Anti-Gun Bills into Law

In a move that we haven't seen since July 2016, when then Governor Jerry Brown signed "Gunpocalypse", current California Governor Gavin Newsom signed FIFTEEN antigun bills into law earlier today.

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An Awful, Horrible, No-Good Expanded Background Check “Idea”

On September 18, 2019, a purported “idea” document reportedly being circulated among Republican senators and congressmen was leaked to the media. The document, entitled “Idea for New Unlicensed-Commercial-Sale Background Checks”, is both frighteningly vague and callous in its disregard for the Second and Fourth Amendments, as well as the federalist principles that animate the Commerce Clause.

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StopHR838.com: Oppose HR 838 - Wholesale Domestic Surveillance of Gun Owners

HR 838 would permit levels of espionage against the American people not seen since the introduction of the Patriot Act. StopHR838.com

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FPC: Why Politicians Are Dead Wrong About Red Flag Laws

In the era of “just do something” public policy, legislators on both sides of the aisle are pitching red flag legislation as a moderate form of gun control; one having a positive impact on mental health reform while simultaneously keeping Americans safe. Nothing could be further from the truth, and what these politicians won’t tell you is that their position is unsupported by evidence and riddled with far-reaching, unconstitutional implications for everyone.

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Firearms Policy Coalition Applauds Washington State's Vote Against Executive Overreach

This Tuesday was a good day for the Second Amendment in Washington state. Gov. Jay Inslee signed SB 5260 which included a repeal of the governor’s own “emergency powers” ability. This ability allowed the governor to unilaterally ban the carrying of firearms outside the home.

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Guns.com: Mass. semi-auto crackdown results in 2,549 rifles sold in one day

According to information from the Mass Firearms Records Bureau, some 2,549 rifles were sold Wednesday, compared to just 132 on Tuesday and 51 on Monday.

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FPC Issues Statement On MA AG’s Gun Ban Edict

A single government official decided that a state regulatory scheme which has been consistently enforced since 1998 should be radically re-interpreted, and issued a decree that puts law-abiding people at serious risk of criminal liability.

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Guns.com: Alabama Governor Lifts Gun Free Zones at State Rest Areas

The governor’s move came following a back and forth between Alabama Department of Transportation and state lawmakers over the legality of banning guns at rest areas for all those other than law enforcement.

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New Federal Regulation could Ban 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints from Being Posted Online

“This is a direct action on behalf of the Obama administration to control public speech about guns on the Internet,” Wilson told FoxNews.com. “They cynically redefine any posting of any technical data to be an ‘export,’ and thereby claim that it isn’t speech. It’s surreal and they’re getting away with it.”

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Drastic Anti-Gun Bill Passed And Signed In Massachusetts

Under cover of darkness and using legislative parlor tricks, the Massachusetts legislature passed an extreme anti-gun bill last week that was signed by the Acting Governor the next day.

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ALERT: NFL Team Sacks the Second Amendment

That's right, they're engaging in an effort to ban "silencers, armor piercing rounds, bump stocks and other mechanisms."

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Illinois Bump Stock Ban HB 4117 Defeated!

Illinois HB 4117, the DISASTROUS bill that would've banned numerous firearms parts and accessories, has just been DEFEATED!

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IL Firearms Accessories Ban on the Move

HB 4117, the Illinois bump stock ban, has passed the Judiciary Committee in the Illinois House and is now on the floor ready to be voted on. The bill has commonalities with other so called “bump stock” bans in the fact that it outlaws any device that could “accelerate the rate of fire.” What this actually means is that any sort of aftermarket triggers, springs, and many other parts could be banned and illegal to own.

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A 2A Update from Oregon

Governor Brown recently renewed her call to close an alleged “loophole” in the law.

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Cuomo Vetoes Knife Reform Bill

Thousands of people have been prosecuted for basic folding knives that can be bought in any hardware or sporting goods store. And most of those arrested have come from minority and low income backgrounds.

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FPC Interviews Maj Toure at Gun Rights Policy Conference 2017

Craig DeLuz sits down with Black Guns Matter founder, Maj Toure, to discuss gun rights in urban communities.

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Bring the Fight to the CA Gun Store Ban

If the government can ban gun stores, then it also has the power to choke off gun owners and limit your exercise of Second Amendment rights.

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Is Your Speech CA Compliant Too?

While most of us gun rights advocates were worrying about how the California legislature was going to revamp their efforts to squeeze the last breath of liberty out of our right to keep and bear arms when they returned to work, their attention was momentarily trained on another constitutionally protected right - freedom of speech.

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Another 2A Win: AB 736 Killed in CA!

That bill would have allowed additional entities to fine gun stores for various "offenses." And that increased cost would've been passed on to YOU, the consumer.

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Federal Lifetime Gun Ban Unconstitutional for Non-Violent Felons Like Appellant, FPC Argues in 7th Circuit Brief

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) today announced that they have filed an important brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Atkinson v. Garland.

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Firearms Policy Coalition Statement on Congressional Gun Control Negotiations

Today, the Firearms Policy Coalition released a statement regarding ongoing bi-partisan negotiations on gun-control in the United States Congress:

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FPC Sues Washington in Challenge to ‘Large Capacity’ Magazine Ban

The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Law today announced that it has filed a federal Second and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit challenging the State of Washington’s unconstitutional ban on common firearm magazines.

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FPC Appellate Win Blocks Pittsburgh, PA Gun Control Scheme

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) today announced an appellate victory in FOAC v. Pittsburgh, Penn., a lawsuit filed in 2019 in response to a gun control scheme enacted by the City and its then-Mayor, Bill Peduto.

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Foster parents, home-based daycare operators cannot be denied their Second Amendment rights, FPC brief argues

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) have filed an important brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Miller v. Smith, urging the Court to reverse a misguided decision of the trial court that upheld Illinois law and regulations that bans firearm possession in child care facilities, including home day care facilities and foster family homes, and prevents an Illinois couple from exercising their fundamental right to keep and bear arms in their home. The brief, authored by FPCAF director of constitutional studies and Second Amendment scholar Joseph Greenlee, can be found at FPCLaw.org.

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Student sues school officials in FPC-backed lawsuit to protect pro-Second Amendment speech

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced a new FPC-supported federal lawsuit against the superintendent of Durand (Michigan) Area Schools, the principal of Robert Kerr Elementary School, and a Robert Kerr school staff member for violating a third-grader’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prevented her from for wearing a hat bearing the text “Come and Take It” as well as an image of an AR_15 rifle to the school’s “hat day.” The complaint for C.S. v. McCrumb can be found at FPCLaw.org.

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FPC leads Second Amendment win in appeal challenging California’s age-based firearm purchase ban

A 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today in the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF)-led case of Jones v. Bonta, holding that California’s age-based firearms purchase ban is unconstitutional and that “the district court erred in not enjoining an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults. The decision can be found online at FPCLaw.org.

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FPC letter to U.S. Senate: Dettelbach unfit to lead ATF

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today it has sent a letter to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary demanding that it “exercise its constitutional authority, and moral duty, to withhold consent” of President Biden’s nomination of Steve Dettlebach for the position of Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

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FPC responds to Duke Center for Firearms Law article on test courts should use on Second Amendment cases

A rebuttal in response to criticism of a scholarly paper authored by FPC Action Foundation director of constitutional studies, Joseph Greenlee, was published today by the Duke Center for Firearms Law. In its April 27 article, “Ghost Guns, History, and the Second Amendment,” the Duke Center called into question an argument Greenlee makes in “The American Tradition of Self-made Arms” defending the test of text as informed by history and tradition (THT) as being the correct methodology for Second Amendment jurisprudence.

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FPC files First and Second Amendment lawsuit against San Jose’s unconstitutional gun insurance scheme

Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the City of San Jose’s ordinance requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay a fee in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. FPC’s complaint argues that the mandate violates both the First and Second Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A copy of the complaint in Glass v. City of San Jose can be found at FPCLegal.org.

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Guns.com: New law exempts retired reserve officers from California magazine ban

The measure, AB 1192, passed the legislature last month by wide margins. The bill was sponsored by Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey of Palmdale, a 28-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol, and Brown signed it without comment.

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Red State: Was it a trap? CADOJ sued over non-functioning assault weapons registration website

Thousands of California gun owners attempted to comply with the state’s assault weapons registration scheme in the weeks before the June 30, 2018 deadline, but for many it was an exercise in futility. Users reported being unable to access the online registration site at all, or spending hours on the glitchy site only to have the site freeze without saving their information.

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California officials warn: Only days left to register all 'bullet button assault weapons'

“The State of California has made gun ownership a Hobson’s choice, wherein one must either accept registration that may yet lead to a confiscatory ban like Prop 63 and heavy-handed law enforcement or waive fundamental rights by not having guns at all,” said Combs.

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SF Chronicle: California Starts Slow on Seizing Unstable People's Guns, But That Could Change

“Due process that occurs after one’s rights have been taken away is in fact not due process,” DeLuz said.

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Seattle Times: Giant California Teacher Pension System Targets Gun Sellers

Fund officials also are lobbying other pension funds and investors to join their drive. The system funds pensions for more than 900,000 public school educators and their families.

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RGJ: Student Sues WCSD After Being Punished for Wearing Pro-Gun Shirt

The lawsuit was filed by the student through his parents and is backed by the Firearms Policy Foundation and the Firearms Policy Coalition, two non-profit groups aimed at protecting the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms.

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Washington Post: Gun Groups Challenge Justice Department's Authority to Ban Bump Stocks

“I think you’re definitely going to see a challenge — perhaps multiple challenges,” said Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition. The coalition said it has already retained attorneys to prepare for the legal fight.

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FPC Responds to Student Walkouts

"I wish that as much energy and effort was included in actually teaching the entire Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment, as was put in by schools to avoid or ignore it."

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Fox 40: California Bill Would Impose Fee on Gun Sales for Counselors, Armed Guards at Schools

“We’re making it more challenging to buy firearms. We’re doing everything possible to make it such that law-abiding citizens are being punished,” said DeLuz.

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Statesmen Journal: More gun retailers raising the age of firearm sales to 21 years old

More retailers across the nation are reacting to calls for gun reform by stopping firearm sales to anyone younger than 21. Eugene-based Bi-Mart was the latest to join the growing list of stores making the policy shift, which already includes Fred Meyer, Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods.

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BREAKING: Xavier Becerra, DOJ Withdraw Latest “Assault Weapon” Proposed Regulation After Strong Opposition from FPC, Gun Groups

The California Department of Justice has withdrawn its latest proposed “assault weapon” regulation after facing opposition and litigation from many gun rights groups, including Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), The Calguns Foundation (CGF), and California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees (CAL-FFL).

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CA Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Gun Storage Bill Into Law in Victory for Gun Owners

Firearms Policy Coalition is pleased to announce that California Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 1382 by Senator Andy Vidak (R-14), a bill making it easier to transport firearms, into law.

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Oregon Gun Ban Measure is Dead

The Oregon Supreme Court proved Wednesday that when it comes to firearms, definitions actually DO matter! The court ruled in favor of a lawsuit that challenged Initiative Petition 43 on the grounds that it was overbroad in applying the term “assault weapon” to common firearms.

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FPC Scores Double-Barreled Victory for the Second Amendment in California

In a one-two punch, Firearms Policy Coalition has again knocked the gun grabbers to the mat. This week, FPC is happy to announce it has officially defeated two more gun control measures!

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Delaware assault weapons ban fails in committee

Senate Bill 163 failed by one vote on June 6, 2018, and if it had gone to the full state Senate, it would have had a few exceptions, mainly for those who already possessed an assault rifle.

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FPC Gets Last Laugh as CA Senator Moorlach’s Anti-Gun Bill Goes Down in Flames

“What went wrong?” That’s probably the question California State Senator John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) keeps asking himself after his anti-gun, public disarmament bill went down in flames in the CA. Senate Appropriations Committee.

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CA Flamethrower Bill is Appropriately Torched

A CA bill that would have defined many common household implements as flamethrowers met a fiery end Friday when it failed to advance from the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Cleveland.com: Ohio Supreme Court Rules Against Cleveland's Efforts at Local Gun Control

That ruling held as invalid a package of ordinances proposed by Mayor Frank Jackson and passed by City Council in the wake of a flurry of gun violence in 2014 and 2015.

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VICTORY: Anti-Gun Pentagon Nomination Defeated!

In a stunning victory for Second Amendment advocates and supporters, anti-gun Dean Winslow's nomination to the Pentagon was put on an indefinite hold by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Winslow then decided to withdraw his name from consideration altogether.

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VICTORY: President Trump Signs Pro-Gun Legislation Allowing Sale of Vintage 1911s

In a pro-2A victory, President Trump signed HR 2810, legislation that included language to mandate the sale of at least 8,000 surplus 1911s by the CMP.

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